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Old Jun 14, 2016, 11:51 AM
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Originally Posted by TishaBuv View Post
A friend of mine has a great saying I adopted, "I used to tell people they were full of BS, now I say 'that's amazing', and they like me much better".
That reminds me of Albert Ellis..... he suggests that conversation with people you don't like can be beneficial. When they say "black is actually white", you can sit there and think to yourself "wow, I guess I never thought of it that way, I guess black is actually white", and let them know you understand what they're saying. (of course, no matter their reasoning, you still actually understand that black is actually black, and not white).
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